Carbon County News

A special group of coal miners from around the West gathered at Mont Harmon Junior High School in Price this week as the Rocky Mountain Coal Mine Rescue Assocation conducted its annual competition. These are all miners who volunteer to go into a ...

If necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows, Utah police agencies and their mental health counterparts may have found a match made in heaven. For the first time in the state of Utah, law enforcement officers and mental health officials are w...

Don Burge, founding director of the USU-CEU Prehistoric Museum and long-time instructor of sciences at the college, has been selected to be the Grand Marshal in this year's International Days Parade in Price....

A CAT track hoe needed a little help from a Nielson Construction crane after apparently falling into a coal pit at the Horizon Mine in Consumers Canyon last week. One person at the scene said the track hoe fell into the pit requiring a crane to g...

Southeastern Utah District Health Department Health Officer David Cunningham goes over the days bid sheets with KRPX's Mallery Dunn during the annual Castle Country Radio Pie Auction. This year, the local radio company decided to put their auctio...

Aidan Riley and his father, Matt, check out the rainbow trout pulled from Gigliotti Pond during Kids' Day Saturday. The event attracted about 175 young people and parents for a day of free fishing. Everyone under 12 years old won a prize of some...

Having held the line on its own budget by raising property tax and water rates and forgoing cost-of-living pay raises, Helper City is not going to finance an increase in the Public Safety Dispatch budget....

The Utah Division of Arts & Museums has awarded a $500 arts education grant to Cathy Wilson, a teacher at Helper Elementary. She was one of 15 teachers statewide who won the honor. The money is to be used to gain skills and knowledge in an artist...

CLRSearch Real Estate Search Engine identified which attributes its consumers considered most important to create the list of the best places to avoid a natural disaster. The released list shows the Top 10 Counties to Avoid Natural Disasters....

Compared to books with text, wordless books have been shown to increase literacy and vocabulary skills in toddlers with developmental disabilities, according to research from the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services at Utah S...